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...Josiah Charles Stamp: A statistician, by whom rare services to his own government and to the Reparations Commission have been rendered through sage advice and a tireless...
They still throw the bull in Mexico, but neither so far nor so much. Instead, the populace prefers to spend its leisure hours at the movies where the sun is not so ponetrating and where opportunities for prolonged siestas are even more numerous. Six times--gloats the statistician--six times as much money is spent annually in Mexico for the moving pictures as for arena exhibitions. And what does this portend? Are the Mexicans losing their sporting blood that they are now content to sit drowsily in darkened room whereas they were wont to eat bananas and throw the skins...
...latter days, Puritans, police and preachers contrive to make life at least exciting for the Merry Andrews, and, incidentally, to provide further food for fun. But not until now, so far as we can tell, has merriment and its disciples been subjected to the dissecting, knife analysis of the statistician...
...Chief Statistician Louis I. Dublin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. published surprising statistics on juvenile suicide in general. Among two million persons aged 15 to 19 the suicide rate for white boys was 6.7 per 100,000 in 1911, 6.16 in 1912. In 1913 it reached a maximum of 7.3 per 100,000. In 1923 it dropped to a minimum of 1.7. In 1925 and 1926 it rose to 3.9 per 100,000. Until 1921, more girls than boys aged 15 to 19 killed themselves. Lately the boy's rate has been the higher...
...Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland statistician, sees the U. S. economic condition in the round. Said he last week: "There is evidence that the savings of the American people are so enormous that funds are pressing for investment on every hand. The question is, where will these funds seek employment?" Careful preceptor, he explained that surplus money might be spent on 1) plant extensions, 2) building construction, 3) real estate speculation, 4) commodity speculation, 5) security speculation, 6) foreign investments. These outlets, as far as they are honest, have been practically filled. Therefore, the too much money that remains presages...